TikTok pushed back on Thursday against growing claims in recent weeks that it had failed to to protect Jewish users and had pushed pro-Palestinian content in the United States.
Many social networks have come under criticism for spreading misinformation and hate speech during the Israel-Hamas war.
TikTok has the added scrutiny of being owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
While Beijing has pitched itself as a neutral broker in the dispute, a surge of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment is proliferating across the Chinese internet and state media.
The company said it started offering such data to academic researchers and will include other groups in the future.
Persons:
TikTok, Jeff Morris Jr, Israel hashtags, Israel, “, Marco Rubio, Rubio, Morris’s, ” TikTok, standwithisrael, Morris didn’t, Amy Schumer, Michael Rapaport, Debra Messing, Yaël, Eisenstat
Organizations:
Twitter, Jewish, Defamation, Defamation League
Locations:
United States, Israel, Beijing, Florida, China